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Maraya1969

(22,441 posts)
Wed Oct 11, 2017, 10:01 PM Oct 2017

Found this on my FB page! If there is anything wrong someone here will tell me I'm sure

PAY ATTENTION!
While everyone is distracted with the recent shootings, protesting, fires and storms, guess what? They passed a bill to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
The House just passed a bill to reduce Medicaid spending by $1 trillion and Medicare by $473 billion.
That's along with the:
$37 billion in cuts for affordable housing,
$100 billion for Pell Grants,
cutting Head Start by $3 billion,
and essentially gutting the WIC program that provides food assistance to 1.25 million women, infants, and children.
While everyone is rightly consumed with the recent tragedy of Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, Houston, Florida, St Thomas, St John and St Croix, the House has passed this bill.
What sort of people are doing this? As if we didn't know.

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Found this on my FB page! If there is anything wrong someone here will tell me I'm sure (Original Post) Maraya1969 Oct 2017 OP
We are in the hands of monsters. Literally. Glorfindel Oct 2017 #1
The House of Representatives is anything but. mountain grammy Oct 2017 #2
GOP hates babies and children bobbieinok Oct 2017 #3
An orchestrated race to the bottom. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #4
Also they can give more tax breaks to the wealthy Republicans Achilleaze Oct 2017 #5
This is why we tow the party line. Tavarious Jackson Oct 2017 #6
Trying the failed Kansas experiment on the whole USA. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #7
no one pays attention to the House, the fight will be in the Senate. n/t Hamlette Oct 2017 #8
They also missed the deadline for children's healthcare. BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #9
No way! I'm sure they slivered out from under rocks! 😉 MLAA Oct 2017 #12
But, but.... SergeStorms Oct 2017 #14
Sometimes I feel like this is just all a bad dream. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #10
Has anyone actually verified that those bills have been passed? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #11
No bill has been passed. Stonepounder Oct 2017 #13
I'm willing to bet.... SergeStorms Oct 2017 #15

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
1. We are in the hands of monsters. Literally.
Wed Oct 11, 2017, 10:09 PM
Oct 2017

Nothing motivates these repukes except greed and hatred. They have only just begun dismantling the United States of America. You ain't seen nothin' yet, baby. Anyone who thinks we can "reach across the aisle" or "go along to get along" or "arrive at reasonable compromise" is a deluded fool. The pukes play for keeps, and the more you try to placate them, the more vicious and ravenous they will become.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
3. GOP hates babies and children
Wed Oct 11, 2017, 10:33 PM
Oct 2017

WIC!?!? Head Start?

IIRC Right has always been against Head Start. Don't want people knowing more than they need for their destined lowly role. See, for example, English and German upper-class diatribes in 18th and 19th century against education for all.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
9. They also missed the deadline for children's healthcare.
Wed Oct 11, 2017, 11:58 PM
Oct 2017

Maybe they don't care about people because they aren't people at all but they actually came out of pods instead of a womb.

SergeStorms

(18,907 posts)
14. But, but....
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 01:05 AM
Oct 2017

Ivanka is SO committed to women's and children's issues. SHE was going to be the "voice of reason" for those issues, and fight so darned hard!

This couldn't possibly mean she's as full of shit as her father, could it?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. Sometimes I feel like this is just all a bad dream.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 12:23 AM
Oct 2017

And that I will wake up back in Obama's America. I feel like I walk around shell shocked most of the time.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
13. No bill has been passed.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 01:02 AM
Oct 2017

A rough, first-draft, GOP wet dream proposed budget was passed. The chances of those cuts actually making it into law are somewhere between Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize and him being inducted into Mensa. Even the GOP hard-liners have to know that if they tried to pass all those cuts the pitchforks and torches would come out faster than Trump can say 'Fake News'.

SergeStorms

(18,907 posts)
15. I'm willing to bet....
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 01:08 AM
Oct 2017

they'll pass it in the House, though. There's not a snowball's chance in hell of passing in the Senate, but I can see them ramming it through the House with little fanfare.

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